Box or case for bottles



(No Model.)

F. W. BECKER. BOX OR'GASE FOR BOTTLES.

No. 511,672. Patented Dec. 26; 1893.

F162,. F1412 s.

Cl Cl Wit? b83863; Inventor.- W .F'erdimnaZWBecker UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrcn;

FERDINAND V. BECKER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOX OR CASE FOR BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 511,672, dated December 26, 1893. Application filed September 21, 1893. Serial no. 486,127. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND W. BECKER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Boxes or Cases for Bottles, of which the following is a specification. a

The object of my invention is to so construct a box for the transportation of bottles that the same will be lighter than usual, can be readily cleaned, and is not so liable to rot as boxes constructed in the ordinary manner.

This object I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1, is a perspective view of a box or case for bottles constructed in accordance with my invention, part of the box being broken away in order to show the interior construction. Fig. 2, is a transverse section of the box; and Fig. 3, is a longitudinal section of the same.

The box comprises the opposite end pieces A A, the opposite sides B B and a slatted bottom composed of spaced strips a suitably secured to the ends A A, the end portions of the box being strengthened, as usual, by enveloping metal bands I). The opposite sides B B of the box do not extend down to the bottom of the same, a space (Z being left at each side of the box adjacent to the bottom so that foreign matters can be readily shaken or washed out of the box, these side openings (6 and the openings between the slats which constitute the bottom of the box providing a ready means of escape for the same. The

box has the usual internal rack forming pockets for the bottles, but only the transverse bars f of this rack extend to the bottom of the box, the longitudinal bars 9 being less in depth than the transverse bars so that they do not interfere with the free lateral escape of foreign matters from the box or with the free flow of a stream of water from side to side of the box over the bottom of the same when the box is being washed out. This construction of sides and rack may be adopted in boxes having closed bottoms, but the use of the slatted bottom is preferred, because from the bottom of the box so as to provide a free lateral passage from side to side of the box over the bottom of the same, substantially as specified.

2. The combination in a box or case for bottles, of the bottom composed of a series of spaced slats, the sides discontinued some distance from the bottom so as to form side openings, and the rack having the longitudinal bars also discontinued some distance from the bottom of the box, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FERDINAND V.

\Vitnesses:

FRANK E. BEOHTOLD, JOSEPH H. KLEIN.

BECKER; 

